Conference Session

Computers and Software in Teaching Mathemathetics

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ali Farahani, National University, San Diego

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

the product of the twosets. The set union, intersection and difference operations are all available in Python thusenabling one to verify Demorgan’s law for sets.Logic:In logic students typically are requires to generate truth tables for a variety of Booleanexpressions. Python directly supports conjunction and disjunction in terms of the build inprimitives and and or, the negation is done using not. A nested loop can be constructed togenerate the truth table for standard logic operators such as the and for p in (True, False): for q in (True, False): print "%10s %10s %10s" % ( p, q, p and q)Once again the code is highly intuitive and requires minimal coding ability. The print